Quotes About Engagement

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Each week in the sample of 3,500 homes: 16 hours were spent reading newspapers, 25 hours watching TV, and 47 hours listening to the radio. If radio is dead, they'll have a hard time convincing it that it should lie down.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Be thoroughly assured of the constancy of your disposition, and the solidity of your motives, before you totally engage in retirement.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don't let it happen to you!

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

activism can be the journey rather than the arrival;

In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese.

Un público sonriente es un público receptivo.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

We need [retail] shelf space to serve as our deep space. We are going to put things there and invite the consumer to give it a try....Most consumers engage in variety seeking, in any case. Why not invite them to pursue it within a purchase instead of across purchases?

He started reading local papers six months before he got to town and arranged regular breakfast meetings for local pastors.

Keeping the important 18-minute wall in mind, we now have to consider the fast start 8-second rule. The 8-second rule recognizes a law of human nature that suggests that most people decide within eight seconds whether a particular speaker is worth listening to in the first place. In other words, don't piddle away your moment of greatest impact on opening amenities. Opening amenities are opening inanities. So begin with a bang. Avoid anemic cliché starts

Andy Stanley writes,"We must remove every possible obstacle from the path of the disinterested, suspicious, here-against-my-will, would-rather-be-somewhere-else, unchurched guests. The parking lot, hallways, auditorium, and stage must be obstacle-free zones."5 I

Guests will visit you online before they visit you in person. Count on it.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

It should go without saying that any cause is better served by doing something well than by doing it badly... In fact, it is better to do nothing for the cause at all than to do something that reflects badly on it... So the first principle of responsible activism should not be "Do something." Instead, one should take a page from medical ethics and "First, do no harm." (Harm to the cause, that is.)

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.